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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Around 8,200 years ago, the Storegga tsunami hit the coasts of the Norwegian and North Seas. This event is well known from wide ranging geological and palaeobotanical work undertaken over the last 30 years. Outside of attempts at palaeodemographic models,
Astrid J. Nyland +2 more
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Nature, 1933 ARCHAEOLOGISTS, of whom I am one, are really quite remarkable people. It is notorious that the nomenclature of their study is already in a sad condition, yet, recently, they have gone out of their way to make confusion more confounded. It has now become the practice to describe early neolithic flint implements by the term mesolithic, a term which means,
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Internet Archaeology, 2016 During the Upper Palaeolithic Britain was visited intermittently, perhaps only on a seasonal basis, by groups often operating at the margins of their range. The Early Mesolithic, by contrast, witnessed the start of the permanent occupation of the British
Chantal Conneller +3 more
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The Mesolithic background for the Neolithisation process
Documenta Praehistorica, 2009 Most researchers today agree that the Early Neolithic is clearly related to the late Mesolithic and cannot be understood without its Mesolithic predecessors. Immigration is thus hardly an issue in the question of Neolithisation any longer.
Ebbe H. Nielsen
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Flint and Tuff in Prehistoric Cumbria
Internet Archaeology, 2009 Field surveys have revealed a substantial number of lithic scatters on the south-west Cumbrian coastal plain and the eastern limestone uplands of Cumbria.
P.J. Cherry
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Ritualized Mesolithic Hoarding in Southern Scandinavia: An under-recognised Phenomenon
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2020 Intentionally deposited groups of artefacts, here classified as hoards, form a relatively understudied aspect of the southern Scandinavian Mesolithic.
Mathias Bjørnevad-Ahlqvist
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In Sight of Doggerland: From speculative survey to landscape exploration
Internet Archaeology, 2007 Composite image of submerged landscapes The North Sea has long been known by archaeologists as an area of Mesolithic occupation, and has even been argued as the heartland of the Mesolithic in North Western Europe.
Simon Fitch, Vince Gaffney, Ken Thomson
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Mellommesolittisk flekketeknologi i Trøndelag og Nordland
Primitive Tider, 2020 This article presents results from dynamic-technological classifications of nine Middle Mesolithic assemblages from Trøndelag and Nordland. The area has until now, with the exception of Foldsjøen, been devoid of research on the spread and expression of ...
Magnus Nilsson Holen
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The Site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, and the Early Cemeteries of Northern Europe
Open Archaeology, 2023 The Mesolithic burial site Groß Fredenwalde, NE-Germany, discovered in 1962, had remained a poorly understood part of the Mesolithic burial record for decades. Since 2012, the site has been under re-investigation.
Kotula Andreas +5 more
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Internet Archaeology, 2007 There is rather a special flavour to research into the Mesolithic period. Immersing ourselves in the study of dynamic, mobile communities facing ever changing environments, with interpretations resting on sparse, rather unimpressive evidence brings a ...
Penny Spikins
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